Swim Briefs
Gossip and News Floating on the Surface This Week Down Under
Quite a bit of news/gossip headed our direction from down under this week. The most heated news is that Mark Thompson’s sex offense case was finally heard on Friday by a jury. The allegations are harsh and it puts Thompson a sticky situation. We hope that the jury will find the truth in […]
Changes in the Coaching Ranks - Week in Review
Over the past week there have been numerous coaching changes across the country at numerous levels of the sport. Late last week, Youngstown State University named Jessica Ewald to its women’s swimming staff as an assistant swimming coach with the University. Ewald is a graduate of Ohio Northern University and has coached at the Total […]
Gaines to Light Torch at Big Sky Games; Another MP3 Player for Swimmers
Another underwater MP3 player targeted towards swimmers is about to hit the market, but at this point only our friends in Japan will have access to the device. Dubbed “the Dolphin,” the device looks very similar to other models already for sale from other manufacturers. The Dolphin boasts two storage options - 1GB or […]
South Africans Skip All Africa Games, Carry Goes About Business
Roland Schoeman, Ryk Neethling, Lyndon Ferns and Darren Townsend will not be competing in Algeria at the upcoming All Africa Games - reportedly due to study commitments in the United States. Not good news for the South African swimming team in attendance, but nonetheless likely a good move for the swimmers if they were not […]
Nintendo Nabs Perkins, India’s Best Receives Financial Boost
Nintendo has tabbed Kieren Perkins and his wife Symantha as spokespeople for the new game More Brain Training which is available for sale starting today in Australia. Perkins says that he has used the original Brain Training game for a while, and Nintendo’s tabbing of Perkins is not the first time the company has […]
Lochte Sidelined With Injury? Retired Australians Take Next Steps
With the Santa Clara Invitational getting started today, Timed Finals received word that Ryan Lochte may be sidelined with a shoulder injury and may not be competing this weekend. We are looking into the situation further, but this is not the first time Lochte has been injured just prior to a meet as he […]
Odds and Ends - Sanders’ Lose Home and Another Top Swimmer Moves
Summer Sander’s childhood home burned to the ground this past Saturday evening. Sanders, who no longer resides in the area, was in town to host the annual Summer Sanders Play Safe Day, scheduled for June 18 at the Roseville Aquatics Center. According to fire officials, “the fire engulfed the multi-million-dollar estate and it […]
Australia Not Resting on Their Laurels and Some Benefits of Swimming
Canadian women’s magazine Divine.ca ran an article (not sure if it is recent or not, but it is timeless in its content) about how swimming is one of the “best physical activities you could engage in.” Rightly said. Among the benefits and reasons stated are: swimming is ageless; swimming can be done just […]
Hackett Regaining Form, Krayzelburg Speaks Out Against Doping
Injuries, illness, moving, and marriage are all words that described Grant Hackett’s life over the past few months. Despite many believing that Hackett might be on the way out, coaches and officials that have watched Hackett train over the past few days at a national distance camp in Queensland have had nothing but positive […]
Australians Think Morning Finals - British Think Clean Air
Australia’s National head coach Alan Thompson warned his charges this morning to not put too much stock into the idea of morning finals. While morning finals are going to be a major focus of every swimmer and coach, hopefully as Thompson points out, it won’t take away from the performances of the swimmers - […]
Open Water Nationals Coming and More Rumblings Off the Pool Deck
President Bush tells journalists that: “Water is a danger not only to countries in the gulf region, but it’s a danger to Americans”. Citing USA Swimming’s ‘Make a Splash’ campaign, he added: “Drowning is the leading killer of American children and our intelligence folks have linked all drownings to water”. He went on: “We will […]
Michael Phelps Podcast - Nothing New Learned
I just finished listening to the new Speedo podcast with Michael Phelps and I will start off by saying that I honestly was not all that impressed. I will cut them some slack though, considering it was their first attempt. What bothered me is that despite Speedo’s billing that these podcasts “will offer […]
Namesnik Memorial, Swimming with Asthma, Hackett, Neethling, and Some Online Video
America’s swimming stars will converge at the University of Michigan’s Canham Natatorium this weekend, at the Eric Namesnik Memorial Grand Prix. The meet was renamed in memory of Namesnik, a two-time Olympic silver medalist and former Michigan swimmer and assistant coach who died in a January car crash. Olympic gold medalists Michael Phelps, Ian Crocker, […]
New Team, Cancelled Sports, a World Record, and Doping Concerns
Swimming World Magazine announced that Boise State University announced earlier this week a plan to achieve “proportionality” in gender equity in intercollegiate athletics over the next 15 years starting with the addition of women’s swimming and diving this next academic year (2006-07). This is great news for a sport that usually sees it opportunities […]
Triathlon Lessons, NCAA Violations, and a Contract with TYR
I hope to spend some time each week pointing out stories from the swimming community that I am not able to focus on here at Timed Finals, but feel that they need some sort of attention.
Triathlete Magazine has begun a sixteen (16) week series written by top multisport coach Lance Watson. The series […]
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